Interview-style biography of controversial and pioneering stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce. The film traces Bruce from his beginnings as a Catskills comic to his later underground popularity based on his anti-establishment politics and his scatological humor.... (Full plot summary below)
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Interview-style biography of controversial and pioneering stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce. The film traces Bruce from his beginnings as a Catskills comic to his later underground popularity based on his anti-establishment politics and his scatological humor.
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| The ARTerySean Burns'Lenny' is a lousy movie about a comedian but it's a great film about a toxic marriage. |
| Creative LoafingMatt BrunsonValerie Perrine delivers a heartbreaking performance, one which earned her the Best Actress prize at Cannes as well as Best Supporting Actress awards from the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Board of Review. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyAs helmed by Fosse and interpreted by Dustin Hoffman, Lenny is too fragmented and episodic to illuminate the controversial comedian but it's a personal, prophetic film, offering insights into the real life and death of Bob Fosse as a filmmaker. |
| Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)Bob BloomA bravura turn by Hoffman, plus Fosse's kinetic direction make this an unforgettable biography. |
| EmpireAngie ErrigoIf Fosse's film fails to capture the man or his art completely, it remains a damn good place to start. |
| New York Magazine (Vulture)Judith CristFosse’s attempt to give us Lenny Bruce as society’s victim and a martyr to noble causes never quite works, and so the movie becomes just several good scenes and a fine Hoffman performance, not a persuasive portrait of a man. |
| National ReviewKyle SmithFew films before Lenny are so ingeniously edited, and yet because the jumpy style has become so familiar in film and television, we no longer appreciate how innovative the approach of Fosse and his film editor, Alan Heim, was. |
| DVDJournal.comMark BourneHis performance may feel too Actors Studio at times, but he radiates his broad-spectrum intensity until Lenny becomes something of a Dustin Hoffman film festival in miniature. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertDustin Hoffman, good as he is in the title role, is never quite permitted to put together an organic, three-dimensional character. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrDustin Hoffman is superb as Lenny Bruce, but he gives an actor's performance where a less declamatory, more comedic delivery would have worked better. |
